Motivational Quotes

Fear

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

- Claudianus, Claudius

Best Quotes about Fear

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nightingale, Earl

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

19.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

30.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Frances Moore Lappe

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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Fear is what kills us.

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John